ARTstor and the Romare Bearden Foundation have collaborated to share nearly 800 images of works by American artist Romare Bearden in the Digital Library. These works represent the breadth of Bearden’s enormous output, from his early paintings executed in a range of styles to his pioneering collage work, which highlights his unique combination of painting and collage materials drawn from popular sources. Throughout, Bearden’s art displays his deep engagement with the African American community and the Civil Rights movement. Continue reading ARTStor now has Romare Bearden Foundation images

Contains the full text of over a thousand plays written from the mid-1800s to the present by playwrights from North America, English-speaking Africa, the Caribbean, and other African diaspora countries.

An additional 600 biographies from the African American National Biography have been added as well as 400 articles from the Oxford Companion to Black British History, the first-ever reference work to explore the story of Britain’s black population over the span of nearly 2,000 years. 30 multimedia clips are new, including Colin Powell speaking on changes in the military, historical footage of civil rights protests in Birmingham, Alabama, a United Negro College Fund TV Ad, and more.